'We were a little bit sloppy'- Delhi Capitals Women coach Jonathan Batty on loss to RCB women

The WPL has started and though it is still the beginning there have already been some incredible matches that the fans have witnessed in the first four games at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara. However, the last match at the venue was a one-sided encounter between the Delhi Capitals Women (DEL-W) and the defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB-W).

The RCB-W restricted bundled out the Capitals for just 141 runs, and the batters chased the target easily. There were barely any moments in the game when the Meg Lanning-led side looked comfortable with either bat or ball. Due to this underwhelming performance, Delhi franchise head coach Jonathan Batty shared his views on how the game panned out and said that the batters could not convert their starts, and in the end were 30-40 runs short admitting that the total they set was not enough to win the game.

“Batting was probably more difficult at the start of the first innings, so I was pretty pleased coming out of the power play being 55 for 1," Batty admitted. "I'd say the first two or three overs, I thought RCB bowled really, really well and I thought Meg and Jemimah fought really, really hard to get us to a really good place at the end of the power play. And then we obviously probably made it a little bit too easy for them to take our wickets, we were a little bit sloppy, potentially with some of our execution,” Batty said as quoted by Cricbuzz.

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“They got a nice partnership going after Shafali's early dismissal. I thought they actually played really positively as well and within sort of relatively low-risk shots. And then obviously all the batters who came in afterwards, most of them got reasonable starts, got into the teens, got into the 20s, and just couldn't quite kick on. We probably needed another 50 or 60-run partnership somewhere within our batting unit to have got up to. I'm guessing probably 170 might have been a more realistic score to have even challenged and probably closer to 180 would have been probably par,” Batty added.

Speaking of the Capital's position on the points table they are currently sitting at third with one win and a loss with a couple of points on the board. They currently have a Net Run Rate (NRR) of -0.882 which they might have to improve going forward in the tournament.